ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,162, issued on June 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method, apparatus, and system for automatic onboarding of a terminal device" was invented by Li Hu (Shanghai) and Rong Wu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and apparatus are provided, to implement automatic onboarding when no network-side information is configured on a terminal device. The method includes: The terminal device obtains auxiliary authentication information that includes identification information of one or more networks; determines access information of a first network based on fir...